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January 18, 2011

A creative weekend

I had a really productive and creative weekend away with my scrapbooking pals. It was good to get away and "make stuff"....I was beginning to think I'd never get my mojo back.

I have been working on an album for someone that is a surprise gift. I am hoping that it will be complete before Sunday, when I hope to give it to that someone as planned. I had to order more photos from Snapfish today as I left a few off of my order last week. Oops! Here is a look at some of what I got completed. The remainder I will post tomorrow so that we're not so photo heavy here all at once.

This LO was an inspiration from an old issue of Creating Keepsakes Magazine (Oct 2010,pg 33) I have only 1 photo for this, so I substituted embellishments for photos at the bottom, left and on the right. The paper is from My Mind's Eye, and I just happened to win it as a door prize raffle. Go me! The alpha letters are from Making Memories and I have had them in my stash forever. I used some foam tape on alternate letters and on 2 of the flowers to add some dimension. I like how it turned out.

This 2 page LO was inspired by a LO in Creating Keepsakes Magazine...the same October 2010 issue. What I liked about it was how fast it came together with using 4"x6" photos and minimal embellishments. The papers are from a Cocoa Daisy kit...maybe October or November 2010 and the alpha letters are American Crafts Thickers. The papers are from Jilly Bean and Lillybee, along with some kraft cardstock from Bazzil.

This LO was a kit from Janene at The Scrapbook Diaries. She does such beautiful work. This was a little labor intense, but I really like it a lot.

This LO was inspired by a Pagemaps sketch from February 2007. It actually was a 1 pager, but I created the right side for more photos about the hunt for our Christmas tree...and I am waiting for the pictures to come from Snapfish so I can finish it. All of the product here is from Pink Paisley. I loved this Christmas line. I still have some in my stash too.

This LO is a Basic Grey Kit. I subscribed to a "kit of the month" club through my LSS for 2010. We received a kit every month with instructions for a 2 pg LO, and enough product to make a couple of cards with whatever remaining product was left after the LO was completed. We also got an album from the Kioshi line. I liked this deal a lot and signed up for it again this year. The designers were great-Kelly Goree, Greta Hammond and Nic Howard to name a few. Good stuff!